Loggersrelied onaxes, handsawsand draft animals before the advent of steam engines and gas-powered vehicles, along with chainsawsand harvesting machines such asthe feller-buncher.
Once that was done, he set to the real work: with hand drills, handsaws (their teeth rubbed, to run more smoothly, with a candle end), his bevelled-edge chisel and his wide, heavy, trusty Number 7 plane, which he used for everything.